Wayne Rooney is winning his battle to overcome a toe injury in time to face Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final second-leg.

The Manchester United forward had emerged as a doubt for the clash in the Allianz Arena after manager David Moyes revealed that he had sustained a badly bruised toe during last Tuesday’s 1-1 first-leg draw against the European champions.

With United concerned over the full extent of the injury, Rooney missed Saturday’s Premier League trip to Newcastle in order to undergo recovery and rehabilitation work at the club’s Carrington training ground.

But while Rooney is yet to make a full return to training, the injury is understood to have improved over the weekend and the player is due to travel to Munich with the rest of the United squad on Tuesday afternoon.

With Champions League competitors obliged to open the doors to the media for the first 15 minutes of training on the day before a game, Rooney could appear in front of the cameras at Carrington on Tuesday morning before boarding to the flight to Germany.

But the player could also be held back from the public session by Moyes in an attempt to keep Bayern guessing over Rooney’s prospects of playing in the Allianz.

Rooney was at the centre of a diving row involving Bayern midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger during the first-leg which resulted in the Germany player being sent off for a late challenge on the United striker.

Rooney claimed that he took evasive action to avoid the challenge -- which has left Schweinsteiger suspended for the second-leg -- but the toe injury was not sustained during that incident.

Despite limping heavily during the closing stages of last week’s game at Old Trafford, Rooney was able to walk freely away from the ground later that evening without the aid of crutches or a protective boot, which are now regularly worn by players as a precautionary measure in the event of any injury scare involving the foot or ankle.